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Introducing the Google Ajax language translation API

• axod 19y ago
  Very cool :) I just integrated it into a test version of Mibbit (IRC client)... http://media.mibbit.com/translate.png http://media.mibbit.com/translate.png (Source on the right, auto translation on the left client) Have to checkout privacy and things like that, but it seems to work pretty well. Now I can go in a russian language channel and have a clue what's going on :)
  • technoguyrob 19y ago
    Wow, you created Mibbit? Props to you, I use it all the time. I don't use a desktop client, and firing up Chatzilla can be annoying as I have a bunch of auto-server and channel joins that take a while to load up (useful for more regular IRC use, but not so much to check a quick channel). I was going to make myself a basic AJAX/Comet web IRC client, but then I found Mibbit, and life became good. :-)
    • axod 19y ago
      hehe thanks :) Glad it's becoming useful for people. Still a ton of work - logging, scripting, open API, skins, etc etc But these things all take time eh
  • abstractbill 19y ago
    That does look awesome. I guess a complete solution would know each user's native language (e.g. by detecting the browser language and/or geo-ip) and would just automatically translate everything into that language for him transparently...
    • axod 19y ago
      Google auto detects source language, so the only thing you have to decide is what to translate it into for sending
  • ashu 19y ago
    This looks very cool. Kudos!
• stillmotion 19y ago
  Wow, I was just working with a client on internationalization, but Google's API was for research purposes only. I'm so excited!